The makeshift weapons of the Free Syria Army

The US is providing Syrian rebels with "non leathal" equipment support, but the Free Syria Army really wants modern weaponry.

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Syrian rebels adjust a homemade mortar launcher in the northern city of Aleppo on October 16, 2012. Lightly-armed Syrian rebels who face the warplanes, artillery and tanks of loyalists have turned to making their own weapons, even rigging a video game controller to fire mortar rounds.

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Syrian rebels adjust a homemade mortar launcher in the northern city of Aleppo on October 16, 2012. Lightly-armed Syrian rebels who face the warplanes, artillery and tanks of loyalists have turned to making their own weapons, even rigging a video game controller to fire mortar rounds.